Episode 28 - Intellectually Affectionate with Annette LaPlaca

On this episode, Annette LaPlaca, a self-proclaimed church lady who loves mysteries and thrillers, discusses her career in editing, how she developed a love of reading in her children, and why it’s ok to have a lot of books. We also discuss the moral and empathetic benefits of a murder book and why people shouldn’t shy away from them. 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Dearest by Jacqui Walters 

Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda 

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix 

 

Books Highlighted by Annette:

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers 

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt 

The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey

The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman 

The Storied Life A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis 

Matilda by Roald Dahl

1984 by George Orwell 

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

Leap Over a Wall by Eugene H. Peterson 

The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta 

Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story by Erik Routley

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene

Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott 

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger 

I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger 

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson 

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 

Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle 

Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard 

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt 

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun 

Moby-Dick by Herman Mellville 

Trust by Hernan Diaz 

The Chosen by Chaim Potok 

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt 

Life of Pi by Yann Martel 

Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey 

Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey 

The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman 

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 

Silas Marner by George Eliot 

Middlemarch by George Eliot 

Emma by Jane Austen 

The Keeper of Lost Causes: The First Department Q Novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen 

The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell 

Father Brown: The Essential Tales by G.K. Chesterton 

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker 

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro